Yemeni Socialist Party

The Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) is a socialist political party in Yemen that was the ruling party of South Yemen during the Cold War. The party was founded in 1978 by Abdul Fattah Ismail, Ali Nasser Muhammad, and Ali Salim al-Beidh to replace the National Liberation Front, but after the reunification of Yemen in 1990, it adhered to democratic socialism instead, and in 2016 it won 8/301 seats in the House of Representatives.